History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 680. [Harrison County] [Cynthiana City and Precinct] REV. J. A. SAWYER, P. O. Oddville; was born in Norfolk, Va., July 10, 1845, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hastings) Sawyer; he, a native of England, being killed on the coast of North Carolina by robbers, in the spring of 1858; she, also, a native of England, and dying in North Carolina in 1854; they had seven children, J. A. being the sixth in order of birth. Our subject received a portion of his education at Georgetown College, Scott County, Ky., at West Point military school, Virginia, and began teaching school near Lexington, Ky., which he followed for some time, and was afterward a professor in Laurel Seminary, London, Laurel County, Ky. In 1866 he began preaching as a minister in the M. E. Church, South, which holy calling he had continued ever since. May 30, 1867, he married in Fayette County, Miss Mattie Horene, daughter of Horatio Nelson, a native of Mercer County, Ky., which union resulted in two children, John Horatio and Mattie Horene. His wife dying in 1870, Mr. Sawyer married, in 1877, Sally A. Hardin, a native of London, Laurel County, Ky., born Oct. 26, 1857, daughter of Mark and Emily Pearl Hardin. Mr. Sawyer is a Mason, and Odd Fellow and a Democrat. Sawyer Hastings Nelson Hardin = Scott-KY Laurel-KY Fayette-KY Mercer-KY VA NC England http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/sawyer.ja.txt